{"id":11918,"date":"2025-09-18T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.both.org\/?p=11918"},"modified":"2025-09-17T11:23:35","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T15:23:35","slug":"sourceforge-is-ending-free-personal-web-hosting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.both.org\/?p=11918","title":{"rendered":"SourceForge is ending free personal web hosting"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pld-like-dislike-wrap pld-template-1\">\r\n    <div class=\"pld-like-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\" class=\"pld-like-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"11918\" data-trigger-type=\"like\" data-restriction=\"cookie\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-up\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-like-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\">    <\/span>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been involved in open source software for a long time, working on countless projects since the 1990s. In the early days of open source, projects had to find places to share their work: this was usually on FTP sites if the project dated before about 1995. But after the World Wide Web innovation in 1995, projects moved to websites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At least in the first few years of the web, that meant open source projects needed to rent their own website hosting. For example, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freedos.org\/\">FreeDOS Project<\/a> website was hosted from a variety of small web hosting companies during that time. As hosting plans shifted with the &#8220;dot com&#8221; explosion, and especially with bandwidth limits, we changed hosting providers to keep up with our nonexistent budget.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That changed in 1999 when SourceForge arrived on the scene. SourceForged provided <em>free hosting<\/em> to open source projects, including websites, file management, and source control. Over the years, SourceForge added (and removed) other services, including email lists, wiki, and blogging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As times changed, so did SourceForge. With the popularity of other blogging platforms, SourceForge eventually shut down the blog service. Same for the wiki. It just didn&#8217;t make sense to maintain a parallel service that few people used.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And this month, SourceForge announced that another of its free services will go away: <em>SourceForge will be sunsetting developer web hosting for user accounts (unrelated to project web hosting) in 60 days on October 10th, 2025.<\/em> It&#8217;s been years since I thought of their <em>developer<\/em> personal website hosting. I had completely forgotten about it. And that&#8217;s probably one reason that SourceForge is sunsetting the service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sourceforge.net\/blog\/sunsetting-developer-web-user-web\/\">See the announcement<\/a> about the closure. SourceForge advises that &#8220;If you are using developer web hosting on your SourceForge user account, please make arrangements before October 10th, 2025. Project web hosting for projects will continue as is.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SourceForge will end personal web hosting (unrelated to project web hosting) in October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":2811,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29,39,158],"tags":[827,108,829],"class_list":["post-11918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-information","category-news","category-open-source","tag-news","tag-open-source","tag-sourceforge"],"modified_by":"David Both","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11918"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11919,"href":"http:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11918\/revisions\/11919"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}